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THE 



DICKENS AQUARELLES. 



V\ RST SER] ES 



TWELVE 



Original Character Illustrations 



OF THE 



PICKWICK papers:' 












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BY 

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NEW YORK: 

J. W. BOUTON, 1 1 s -2 and 706 BROADWAY. 



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Copyrighted by J. W. Boutox, 1S88. 




iHE accompanying twelve original Illustrations of 
Character, embodied in the "Pickwick Papers," 
are not intended to be placed in competition with 
those admirable portraitures with which the names of Cruik- 
shank, Phiz. Fairholt, Gilbert, and other renowned artists are 
associated. ["hey are merely the expression of ideas by an 
Artist whose countrymen continue to be the most constant 
admirers of the great novelist's writings. An attempt has 
been made in these drawings to avoid all traces of caricature, 
and to present pictures of the Pickwick People as they might 
have lived, and as they probably did exist in the mind of 
Dickens. Hitherto the characters have always been associ- 
ated with the scenes amid which they move, and it is be- 
lieved that this is the first attempt to individualize them and 
endeavor to make them support their own characters without 
the aid ot extraneous incident. They may he used to illus- 
trate existing editions of Dickens' works, or serve, in their 
own unassisted selves* to realise to some extent the pecu- 
liarities of the characters they represent, and so gratify the 
reader of the novelist by their assumed fidelity to the per- 
sonality conceived by Mr. Dickens himself. 

It is the intention of the artist to continue the series by 
groups of character from the same author's works, if it is 
found that the admirers of the master of English fiction de- 
sire to possess them, in which case he may be still further 
encouraged to try his hand upon the prominent characters of 
other novelists. 

The approval of the public can alone decide this. That 

approval is hoped for by 

THE PUBLISHER. 










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